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[quote=Anonymous]I recently worked for about six weeks with a family with 18 mo old twins cared for by someone with limited English. The kids didn't really speak a lot of English and the nanny never took them out of the house to socialize. She was older and lived with them because the parents jobs had long sporadic hours. My job was to get them out and socialized and speak English to them. The nanny m ew a little English and I know a little Spanish but it made communicating with her really difficult. My two cents is bilingual nannies are great and I wish all Americans had the opportunity to learn another language from a very early age, but if they aren't learning their first language well that isn't a very good start in life; they're basically foreigners in their own land. That said, kids are resilient and malleable so I'm sure they'll learn its just harder is all. Harder on everyone, esp of the nanny quits and a new one fluent in English comes in and can't communicate with them. If anything if have the limited English nanny speak the foreign language rather than broken English. [/quote]

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